The chip inside the iPhone 7 will reportedly be inside Apple's new iMac Pro as well

New leaks surfaced over the weekend mention that the chip powering the iPhone 7 may live inside Apple's upcoming iMac Pro as a coprocessor to handle lighter tasks.

These tasks may include an always-on "Hey Siri" feature to summon the digital assistant with your voice.

Apple's A10 Fusion system-on-a-chip (SoC), the one that powers last year's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, will feature as a coprocessor inside the upcoming iMac Pro, according to Apple developers who digged inside a publicly available software package.

Developer Steve Troughton-Smith — who leaked correct information about the iPhone X before its release from examining unreleased HomePod software — said that the A10 Fusion would actually never be fully dormant inside the iMac Pro, and enable things such as an always-listening "Hey Siri" feature, similar to the iPhone.

We had already heard that there could be a secondary chip inside the machine, but early signs pointed towards something more akin to the T1 processor that helps the new MacBook Pros offload the management of the TouchBar and the Touch ID fingerprint reader.